{"id":2154920,"date":"2024-01-21T06:43:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/frustrated-bipartisan-lawmakers-travel-to-mexico-city-to-discuss-border-security-2\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T06:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:46:27","slug":"frustrated-bipartisan-lawmakers-travel-to-mexico-city-to-discuss-border-security-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/frustrated-bipartisan-lawmakers-travel-to-mexico-city-to-discuss-border-security-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan lawmakers head to Mexico City to tackle border security, fueled by frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrustrated-bipartisan-lawmakers-travel-to-mexico-city-to-discuss-border-security-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2154920&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Frustrated U.S. \u200bLawmakers Take Urgent Action\u200b on Immigration Enforcement<\/h2>\n<p>MCALLEN, Texas \u2014 Frustrated \u2063U.S. lawmakers\u2062 will arrive\u2064 in Mexico City on Sunday to echo the Biden administration\u2019s concerns and demands on immigration\u2064 enforcement that White House and Cabinet officials expressed \u200dto their Mexican counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>With a renewed\u200d sense \u200dof urgency following \u2064a two-day tour of\u2062 the Rio\u2062 Grande Valley\u200b region of the border, House\u200c Foreign \u200bAffairs\u200c Chairman Mike McCaul \u2062(R-TX) and three other Texas representatives said they will \u200cvisit \u200bMexico City to impress upon President\u200c Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and others the \u200dneed\u2062 to \u2064deter and turn\u2062 away illegal immigrants headed \u200bnorth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Changing Policy to Stop the Flow of Illegal Immigration<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow, we will be flying down to Mexico \u200cCity to meet with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and to meet\u2064 with the\u2062 presidential \u200dcandidates to talk about how we\u2063 can change this policy and return \u2063to policy where we can stop the\u200c flow, where \u2064we can\u2064 turn off the magnet and stop the pull factor that\u2063 brings in so many here illegally,\u201d McCaul said during \u200cremarks following\u200b the\u200d McAllen\u200d visit \u200cSaturday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lawmakers\u2019 arrival in Mexico will come two days \u200bafter Mexican\u2062 officials traveled to Washington \u200dand met with Secretary of \u2063State Antony\u200c Blinken, Secretary \u200bof Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and White \u200dHouse \u200dHomeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall for the second time in a month\u2063 about border control measures.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Addressing America&#8217;s \u200bNeeds Ahead\u200d of Mexico&#8217;s Presidential \u2063Election<\/h3>\n<p>The representatives are motivated to lay out America\u2019s needs clearly \u200cas Lopez Obrador \u2064and the other candidates establish and publicize their policy platforms ahead\u2062 of Mexico\u2019s presidential \u200delection in June.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEight million encounters,\u201d McCaul said in reference to the number of immigrants intercepted \u2062at the border since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. \u201cHow \u2063in the world are we going to deal with this? Three hundred on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-delegation-calls-on-biden-to-take-action-at-border\/\" title=\"GOP delegation calls on Biden to take action at border\">terror watch list<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Henry\u2062 Cuellar\u200b (D-TX), who represents the \u2062Laredo, Texas, border, said\u2062 it was\u200b important to \u2063hear from federal law enforcement before heading further south and considering the impact \u2064of \u200bpotential policy changes on \u200dborder communities.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 group \u2062of lawmakers \u2062who visited the border also included Reps. Monica de la Cruz (R-TX) and Randy Weber (R-TX). Rep. \u2064Tony\u2062 Gonzales\u200c (R-TX)\u200c did not attend the border visit but will meet the group \u2063in Mexico. De la Cruz will not continue with the rest \u200cfrom Texas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Positive Results from Mexico&#8217;s Enforcement Efforts<\/h3>\n<p>The\u200d White House praised Mexico for taking \u201cswift action against \u200dmigrants\u201d in the days since Biden administration officials met with their counterparts in\u2062 Mexico City on Dec. 27,\u200b 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur trip to Mexico last month came at a critical moment\u200c to continue building on our cooperation \u200band the significant efforts \u2064of \u200dour Mexican \u2062partners,\u201d a White \u200cHouse\u2064 National Security Council spokesperson\u200c wrote in an \u2064email. \u2063\u201cWe are already\u2063 starting to\u200c see the results and DHS has reopened multiple ports of entry along the border recently, in large part, thanks to\u200c Mexico\u2019s \u200caugmented \u200cenforcement \u200cefforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, our Mexican partners have taken swift action against migrants bordering \u200drail\u2062 and buses, and last week took steps \u200dto initiate repatriation\u200b flights\u2064 to Venezuela \u2063as \u200dpart\u2062 of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-cheers-mexicos-swift-action-against-migrants-experts-say-its-purely-visual\/\" title=\"White House praises Mexico's quick response to migrants, but experts deem it merely superficial\">regional migration strategy<\/a> under the Los Angeles Declaration,\u201d the NSC\u200c official said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s very public\u200d takedowns of an \u2064immigrant caravan, \u2062border camp, \u200dand deterrence of immigrants riding atop \u200cnorthbound freight\u2063 trains have \u200cmade\u200b headlines since \u2062the \u2063bilateral talks, but some immigration \u2063analysts have suggested the actions were \u200bdone specifically to garner attention while having the least \u2062impact on \u200cthe crisis overall.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Obrador said the U.S. reached out for help days \u2064before Christmas. The Mexican president said \u2064what Biden \u2063described in a \u200cpost on X as a \u200dU.S. request to reopen\u200c closed border crossings to\u200d trade\u200d and traffic was a private plea.<\/p>\n<p>Following the latest bilateral meeting on Friday, State Department spokesman Matthew \u2062Miller was less\u200d detailed\u200c about any specific \u2063agreements that both nations reached \u200cthis time around.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Working Towards a Legislative Solution<\/h3>\n<p>The congressional delegation is working simultaneously in Washington \u2062to move forward \u200don a legislative solution to the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar\u2063 said\u2062 Saturday that he \u2062supported \u2064House Speaker \u2062Mike Johnson (R-LA) \u200din his call to address the situation.\u2064 House Republicans put forth\u2062 a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/frustrated-bipartisan-lawmakers-travel-to-mexico-city-to-discuss-border-security\/\" title=\"Bipartisan lawmakers head to Mexico City to tackle border security, fueled by frustration\">comprehensive border security package<\/a> in 2023, but the Senate has yet to take it \u200bup for consideration and has not agreed to include \u200cthe\u2064 entire \u200bplan in a supplemental funding bill for Ukraine and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m with Mike, I hope \u2064we can address\u2063 it,\u201d Cuellar\u200b said. \u201cWe do know that\u2064 the speaker\u200c said that they\u200b were going to turn down \u200cthe Senate deal, which\u2062 I hope \u200dhe doesn\u2019t. If there\u2019s\u200c a crisis, I think we need to get together. And\u200b I think this group here can get together to address this issue. \u200cI hope we can do this supplemental. I\u2064 think we need to as \u2063Democrats \u200bor\u2064 Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weber and de la Cruz\u2063 said they \u200cbelieved the Senate ought to take up\u200d H.R. 2, House \u200bRepublicans\u2019 border bill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How can \u200dpotential policy changes impact border communities\u200d and what steps are being taken to understand their impact?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ation strategies,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. lawmakers\u2019 visit to Mexico\u2062 City is a clear indication of \u2063the frustration and urgency \u2063felt by policymakers regarding immigration enforcement. \u2064The \u2062Biden administration, along with House Foreign Affairs Chairman Mike \u2062McCaul and other Texas \u2064representatives, is \u2062determined to address the\u200b issue and find solutions to deter illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>During their visit to the Rio Grande \u200cValley region of the border, the \u200clawmakers witnessed firsthand the challenges \u200dand consequences of illegal immigration. As a result, they have decided to take their\u2063 concerns directly to President Andres Manuel Lopez\u2063 Obrador and other Mexican officials. The aim is to emphasize the need for\u200b action in deterring \u200cand turning away illegal immigrants who are \u200dheading north.<\/p>\n<p>This visit is timely, as Mexico approaches its presidential election in June. The representatives want to ensure that \u200bAmerica\u2019s needs\u200d and \u200bconcerns regarding \u200bimmigration are clearly communicated and taken into consideration as candidates establish their policy platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 number of\u2063 encounters at \u200cthe \u200cborder since President\u200d Biden took office is staggering. With eight million immigrants intercepted and 300 on\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrants-from-middle-east-arrested-at-us-border-over-past-10-days-steve-daines\/\" title=\"Steve Daines reports recent arrests of Middle Eastern illegal immigrants at US border.\">terror watch\u2063 list<\/a>, the question of how to effectively manage this situation arises. The lawmakers recognize the \u200bimportance of hearing from federal law enforcement and \u2064understanding\u2063 the impact\u2064 of \u200bpotential\u200c policy changes on border communities before making further decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The group of lawmakers visiting the border includes representatives\u2064 from both parties, including\u2063 Reps. Monica de la Cruz and \u200cRandy Weber, along with Rep. Tony Gonzales, who did not attend the border visit but will join the group in Mexico. It is an opportunity for bipartisan collaboration and understanding of \u2062the complexities surrounding\u200d immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts made by Mexico in enforcing immigration \u200bhave been \u2062acknowledged by\u2064 the \u2063White House. Swift action taken against\u2063 migrants and the initiation of repatriation flights to \u200dVenezuela demonstrate Mexico&#8217;s commitment to addressing\u2063 the issue. These actions have contributed \u200cto\u200c the reopening of multiple ports of \u200dentry along the border.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. lawmakers\u2019 visit to Mexico City signifies a significant \u200bstep towards finding \u2064effective immigration enforcement solutions. By engaging in direct dialogue with Mexican officials, the aim is to\u200c foster cooperation and collaboration between the two nations. It is crucial \u200bto address immigration issues promptly to ensure the \u200dsafety and well-being\u200d of both \u2062countries\u200b and\u200c their citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members will meet with Mexican officials to discuss immigration enforcement issues. They aim to convey the concerns and demands of the Biden administration, mirroring the discussions held by White House and Cabinet officials. 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